The Cloud Pod: A Masterclass in Cloud Architecture – Episode 56

Your co-hosts move from the atmosphere to DigitalOcean as they recap the week in Cloud on this episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data —  no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms.  This week’s highlights Microsoft releases an ambitious plan to erase its carbon footprint. Amazon slashed prices for two services. Google Cloud fights for market share as connections change with Epic and Sabre. Justin’s Adventures in Oracle Cloud Revisited On Episode 54 we featured an investigative segment where Justin sought answers as to whether non-boot volume cross-region backups were available yet. And while that sleuthing was still an informative experience, Max Verun, a Product Manager at Oracle, has reached out to let us know that those answers were also in paragraph two of the very article we linked to.  Thanks, Max. We’d love to have you on the show sometime. Microsoft and DigitalOcean Make Major Reductions (But Not the Same Kind) Microsoft has declared an